LEADER 04353nam 2201069z- 450 001 9910367736803321 005 20210211 010 $a3-03921-981-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000010106349 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/45495 035 $a(oapen)doab45495 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010106349 100 $a20202102d2019 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDrones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring 210 $cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 311 08$a3-03921-980-4 330 $aUnmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipped with high-resolution visible, multispectral, or thermal cameras to assess the state of ecosystems, the effect of disturbances, or the dynamics and changes within biological communities inter alia. We are now at a tipping point on the use of drones for these type of applications over natural areas. UAV missions are increasing but most of them are testing applicability. It is time now to move to frequent revisiting missions, aiding in the retrieval of important biophysical parameters in ecosystems or mapping species distributions. This Special Issue shows UAV applications contributing to a better understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem status, threats, changes, and trends. It documents the enhancement of knowledge in ecological integrity parameters mapping, long-term ecological monitoring based on drones, mapping of alien species spread and distribution, upscaling ecological variables from drone to satellite images: methods and approaches, rapid risk and disturbance assessment using drones, mapping albedo with UAVs, wildlife tracking, bird colony and chimpanzee nest mapping, habitat mapping and monitoring, and a review on drones for conservation in protected areas. 610 $aaccuracy 610 $aaerial survey 610 $aalbedo 610 $abiodiversity 610 $abiodiversity threats 610 $abiological conservation 610 $abird censuses 610 $aboreal forest 610 $aconservation 610 $adrone 610 $adrone mapping 610 $adrones 610 $adrought 610 $aecological integrity 610 $aecological monitoring 610 $aeffective management 610 $afield experiments 610 $aflight altitude 610 $aforest regeneration 610 $afore?t Montmorency 610 $agreat apes 610 $agreenness index 610 $aground-truth 610 $ahyperspectral 610 $aimage processing 610 $aimage resolution 610 $aLandsat 8 610 $along-term monitoring 610 $alow-cost UAV 610 $aLTER 610 $aLTSER 610 $aMotus 610 $amultiscale approach 610 $amultispectral 610 $amultispectral mapping 610 $anative grassland 610 $aNDVI 610 $aParrot Sequoia 610 $aParrot SEQUOIA 610 $aphenology 610 $aPinus nigra 610 $aPinus sylvestris 610 $aPlegadis falcinellus 610 $aprecision 610 $aprotected areas 610 $aradio-tracking 610 $arandom forest 610 $aresponse surface 610 $arice crops 610 $aRPAS 610 $aSentinel 610 $aSentinel-2 610 $aSequoia 610 $asmall UAV 610 $asupervised classification 610 $asurvey 610 $aTanzania 610 $aUAS 610 $aUAV 610 $aUAVs 610 $aunmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) 610 $avegetation indices 610 $awestern swamphen 700 $aMücher$b C.A$4auth$01301173 702 $aDíaz-Delgado$b Ricardo$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367736803321 996 $aDrones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring$93025760 997 $aUNINA